A fully responsive and interactive astronomy learning tool. Utilizing the NASA API and the ISS API to dynamically update current astronomical events.
- Explore - Outer-Earth
Dynamically updated daily with the NASA API- Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Dynamically updated daily with the NASA API- Near Earth objects are any comets or asteroids that have been "pushed" into earth' area in space by the gravitational attraction of other planets. The 'NEO card' will show objects that will be approaching close to Earth today!
Dynamically updated daily with the NASA API- These NeOs(near earth objects) have a possiblity to come close enough to have human crewed missions sent to them! Displaying minimum requirements for each NeO to obtain the minimum duration trajectory(minimum mission time).
Dynamically updated with the ISS API- This feature will get your current location and tell you where the space station currently is, how fast it's travelling, and its altitude. An awesome feature added will show you the current location of the ISS on a map!
An interactive feature that will have the user input his/her weight and provide the users weight on the planet selected. Also this feature provides each planets Mass, day length , year length and temperature.
- HTML
- CSS
- JAVASCRIPT/JQUERY
- Moment.JS
- Leaflet.JS
- GSAP JS animations
- BOOTSTRAP
- Animate.CSS
- Scroll magic
- Font Awesome
- Google Fonts
- NASA
- Where the ISS at?
- Mapbox - Map Tiles
- Google - Geocoding
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Cassidy Fortner - JavaScript/API Implementation - GitHub
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Kogan Pack - JavaScript/API Implementation - GitHub
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Stephen Webb - UI Design/JavaScript - GitHub
“I’m a high school science teacher looking for a user-friendly, interesting resource to help get students excited about astronomy.”